Witch Spring 1

Witch Spring

Korean

Japanese

Development

Developer

Director

Artist

Kim Daeun

Witch Spring is the first game in the Witch Spring series. It follows Pieberry as she trains herself to become strong enough to fight against Warriors. It currently costs $1.99 (USD) on the App Store and Google Play Store.

On March 9, 2018, an announcement was released for Witch Spring: Illustration Remaster, a game update which would redo the portrait illustrations. The update released on June 22, 2018, changing all the dialogue portraits and cutscene illustrations but leaving the ending illustrations intact.

(Some dialogue changes were noted for the Japanese version of the game, to integrate better with Witch Spring 2. Whether these changes are present in the English game have not been confirmed.)

Contents

Begin your 100 days RPG project with the cutest witch in the world.It's a classic RPG with no distractions. No in-app purchase or advertisements.

Choose her fate. Focus just on her training and make her the most powerful witch in the universe or follow through her whole story and make her the lord of the humans.

Train and rest at her home, mix spell ingredients and compose a powerful magic!Wonder the universe, battle against the warriors and find spell ingredients!Protect her at all costs against the warriors!

The core of Witch Spring's gameplay is training, defeating monsters, and gathering items. Through training, Pieberry can defeat stronger monsters and gather more items to make herself even stronger. The main game lasts 100 in-game days, and all the activities she performs will take up time.

Training:
At home, Pieberry can pick between various training exercises, which have either an HP or MP cost and will boost her stats by a fixed amount.

Crafting:
Using items that she has found on the field or by defeating enemies, Pieberry can craft items and new spells. Some items are recovery items, while others will boost her stats. Spells that are crafted can then be assigned so she can use them in battle.

Tiredness:
By training, exploring, or fighting, Pieberry will accumulate Tiredness. While Tiredness doesn't have an extremely large impact at first glance, having 0 Tiredness grants Pieberry a 20% boost to all stats aside from HP and MP. Sleeping halves Pieberry's Tiredness, though it uses up 9 hours in return.

Aside from Tree Sap, all the above materials are chance-based drops. Save-scumming (reloading saves if you don't get the right outcome) for the right materials is encouraged.

Craft as much Nutrition Soup and Green Soup during early-game as you can and save them. They are used as a base for many other crafted statboosters later in the game.

Save Kreytes Root, Klarates Tree Sap, and Kreytes Leaf instead of immediately consuming them. They can be crafted into even more powerful statboosters with Nutrition Soup.

Do not make Wild Rabbit, Big Ugly Bird, or Black Lion into pets at first. They have much more use for their drops than as pets.

Wild Rabbit can be safely turned into a pet around mid-game, but in early-game, it is the most reliable source of Gold: 800 G per defeat, compared to the 600 G dropped by Lalaque Warriors (700 if Wild Rabbit is set as your pet). Gold should be used to buy items from Ralph. In later parts of the game, if you want to fill out Ralph Requests, turn Wild Rabbit into a pet; Ralph's gold rewards will get boosted by its ability.

When Suyoung Jang first came up with Witch Spring, he envisioned it as a defense game. There was just one problem... he didn't like defense games. He was too attached to Pieberry to just scrap her, though, so he instead turned it into a role-playing game.

Because there were already many free-to-play games that had in-app payments but lackluster gameplay, he decided he wanted to create a solid game that needed only one payment for the whole experience.

In an interview, Suyoung mentioned that there had originally been 20 endings planned, but because the illustrator (Daeun Kim) was a student and couldn't keep up with so many illustrations, they cut it down to 9. (Source)